Paint is getting pigment-seperation which takes typically takes 100+ years...
Used, Danced, Ethnographic Item.
Newer, wire for hanging-display.
I love the ornate, hand-painted, green eyes and curling moustache.
We are getting close to a point whereby DNA testing the patina and carbon dating the wood will be fiscally feasible and will make these peices timestamps-of-humanity.
The oversized, square nose is a good hint of what parts of Mexico this may have hailed from.